Monday Must Reads: Volume 2
It's difficult to believe it's already been a calendar week since my first mass of Mon Must Reads. Since the final mass was received thence positively, I'm dorsum today amongst mass 2! The finish of this weblog serial is to highlight some of my favorite weblog in addition to twitter reads that I cry upwards are worth sharing.
Last week, I discovered the Pie Says No (@pie_says_no) Twitter account, in addition to it's definitely worth a follow. The occupation organization human relationship regularly tweets cringe-worthy pie charts (and other information visualizations). These are perfect for showing students what NOT to do! Here's my favorite one:
Fawn Nguyen's recent post service near Solving an Equation amongst a Fraction has me thinking a lot near how I desire to construction my solving equations unit of measurement for side past times side year's Algebra 1 class. I bespeak to focus less on mindlessly manipulating equations in addition to focus to a greater extent than on a conceptual agreement of what equations genuinely mean.
Last week, I discovered the Pie Says No (@pie_says_no) Twitter account, in addition to it's definitely worth a follow. The occupation organization human relationship regularly tweets cringe-worthy pie charts (and other information visualizations). These are perfect for showing students what NOT to do! Here's my favorite one:
  Karl Lippa has me really intrigued amongst this tweet about having his students participate inward Opposite Hand Olympics inward Algebra 1. You MUST click through the link to a higher house to sentry the video of students trying to residual marbles on a textbook. It looks similar thence much fun! The screenshot I'm posting below simply doesn't capture the awesomeness of the entire video.  Teach180 tweets! I honey this punch carte du jour activity that she created for trigonometric equations. I've used punch cards i time before, in addition to they worked well. I bespeak this reminder to seat punch carte du jour activities into my normal pedagogy rotation.   I don't learn geometry, but Kerri Sustich's Circumference or Area? activity that she posted on Twitter definitely caught my eye. So often, nosotros practise all of i type of occupation thence all of some other type of problem. This activity gets students thinking near 2 types of problems at the same time. I tin transportation away definitely run into applying this same practise construction to other math topics!  dry erase templates for pedagogy polynomials using the box method!  What is Chemistry? After doing starting fourth dimension calendar week activities in addition to discussing lab safety, it's fourth dimension to start out our formal report of chemistry. Yesterday, I decided to convey my students consummate a frayer model amongst the Definition of chemistry. But, first, I had students practise a heed map/concept map/bubble map/whatever you lot desire to telephone outcry upwardly it map of what they idea chemical scientific discipline was. I used my grouping sized dry out erase boards that I got concluding twelvemonth amongst a grant. Each grouping got v minutes to consummate the task. Here's what my students came upwardly with:      I would similar to convey students practise this activeness in 1 lawsuit again at the terminate of the twelvemonth to demo them but how much they learned nigh chemistry. Monday Must Reads: Volume 11It's fourth dimension for some other Mon Must Reads! Thankfully, it's a much less hectic Mon than final calendar week due to the fact that the Oklahoma Teacher of the Year Ceremony has come upward as well as gone. In illustration you lot missed it on Twitter, I didn't win. And, I'm completely okay alongside that. The winner is a fantastic as well as inspiring lady, as well as I'm for certain she is perfect for the task of OK ToY! I'm 100% at domicile inwards the classroom (the same cannot travel said for giving speeches on a stage!), as well as I'm super excited that I volition acquire to proceed pedagogy inwards the classroom adjacent year. Otherwise, how would I come upward up alongside ideas to weblog about?!?
 Mrs. Riley shares a graphic alongside dissimilar division-related vocabulary. For the past times few years, I've taught my students virtually the give-and-take "vinculum." But, "obelus" as well as "virgule" are novel to me!
Need to learn piecewise functions? Susan Russo has you lot covered alongside an awesome real-life scenario to motivate your graphing. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!
Until adjacent week's post, hold sharing your classroom awesomeness! 
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